Archive for June 2002
7 June 2002
Local government workers: Vote Yes For Action!
UNISON'S BALLOT of local government workers in England and Wales opens on 10 June. The other unions involved, TGWU and GMB are balloting their local government membership separately around the same time
7 June 2002
Blunkett's New Attack On Asylum Rights
HOME SECRETARY David Blunkett has announced two additions to the Asylum Bill currently going through parliament, which are a major attack on the rights of refugees seeking asylum in Britain
7 June 2002
Drugs Policies Still Aren't Working
IN THE first in a series of articles on crime and related subjects, MIKE FORSTER looks at the question of drug abuse:
7 June 2002
Kashmir conflict: Capitalist Crisis Threatens Nuclear War
The world is nearer to nuclear war than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, writes Lynn Walsh
7 June 2002
IN THE High Court on 31 May, a judge ruled that the election of Mark Serwotka as general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) was legal and that the union executive's actions to remove him were illegal
7 June 2002
Kashmir: On The Brink Of A Catastrophe
FACED WITH a potential nuclear war between regional rivals Pakistan and India over their Kashmir conflict, the Western powers, Russia and China are attempting to de-escalate tensions
7 June 2002
Kashmir conflict: Workers' Unity to Stop Nuclear Threat
Exclusive report from Kasmiri socialist: KASHMIR, INDIA and Pakistan stand on the edge of a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions. Two unstable capitalist regimes with nuclear weapons threaten to bring destruction to millions of people
14 June 2002
US economy Recovery, What Recovery?
WE WERE told that the US economic recession was over. Now the apparent recovery is being described as sluggish, fragile, shallow, uncertain or maybe not a recovery at all
14 June 2002
Northern Ireland: A Tinderbox Of Anger
ANY IDEA that the problem of sectarian violence along "interface areas" was something unique to North Belfast has been shattered by the fighting that erupted in the Madrid Street area in the east of the city, writes Peter Hadden, Belfast.
14 June 2002
India/Pakistan Conflict - The Failure Of Capitalism
THE MILITARY conflict between India and Pakistan has brought the two regional capitalist powers to the brink of war, writes Dave Carr.
14 June 2002
General Strike in Spain to stop Aznar's attacks
ON 20 June workers in Spain will strike for 24 hours against the imposition of a law which drastically cuts unemployment benefit, writes Andy Bentley.
14 June 2002
Anti-Capitalist Protest At EU Summit
ON 21-22 June, the European Union's (EU) political elite will hold a summit in Seville, Spain. Outside their sumptuous surroundings, thousands of anti-capitalist protesters will be demonstrating against
14 June 2002
Council workers' pay battle: End Low Pay Now!
COUNCIL WORKERS in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are putting pressure on local authorities by announcing a one-day strike on 17 July
14 June 2002
Fight Labour's Big Business Policies
SUPPORT FOR New Labour in opinion polls is sinking fast. It's now at its lowest level since the fuel protests in 2000. Former transport secretary Stephen Byers might have gone, but that hasn't stopped
21 June 2002
SEVERAL PROTESTS are planned against the World Bank's Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) in Oslo from 24-26 June, writes Trond-Sverre Kolltveit, Norway.
21 June 2002
THIS WEEK is Refugee Week. Thousands will be demonstrating in London to defend the right of asylum
21 June 2002
Does The Fall Of The USSR Prove That Socialism Will Inevitably Fail?
What About Russia?: MILLIONS OF people have joined anti-capitalist and anti-globalisation protests internationally; angry at the economic crisis that's wrecking countless lives; at the wars waged by the USA and its imperialist partners, at the oppression, exploitation and environmental destruction of modern-day capita, writes Pete Dickenson.
21 June 2002
German Building Workers Strike
THOUSANDS OF building workers downed tools and walked off sites throughout Germany to demand a 4.5% pay rise
21 June 2002
WHEN OUR manager announced the £1.1 billion loss in Consignia and the additional 17,000 job losses on top of the 15,000 already announced, my workmates cheered at the resignation of Chief Executive John Roberts, a London postal worker writes.
21 June 2002
Unison conference: Delegates Back Privatisation Battle
UNISON LOCAL government conference, meeting for two days before the main UNISON conference, saw the leadership overturned five times in the first four hours, writes Bill Mullins.
21 June 2002
Enough Is Enough: Time to fight back!
WE COULD be heading for a "summer of discontent". Public sector workers in particular have had their fill of privatisation, cuts and attacks on working conditions. Many are saying "enough is enough".
28 June 2002
Hands Off Comprehensive Education
ESTELLE MORRIS, New Labour education secretary, has threatened that the "comprehensive ideals" prevailing since the 1960s would "wither and die" if schools did not embrace New Labour's agenda for change
28 June 2002
Israel's Re-Occupation Doomed To Failure
As the spiral of violence in the Middle East escalates, possibly towards a wider war drawing in the surrounding Arab countries, US President Bush continues to show the incapacity of the leading imperialist power on the planet to offer any solution to the conflict, writes Judy Beishon.
28 June 2002
Spain - 10 Million Strike For Workers' Rights
"CERRADA" - SHUT down - was the only way to describe Sevilla on 20 June, day of the first general strike in Spain since 1994. The city was at a standstill
28 June 2002
IN THE light of the success of a range of Left candidates in the last local elections, the Socialist Party wrote the following letter to the Socialist Alliance
28 June 2002
ADAIR TURNER, the new chair of the Low Pay Commission, the body which decides how low to set the national minimum wage, has admitted that he "couldn't possibly envisage" surviving on the national minimum wage level of £4.10 an hour - £164 a week
28 June 2002
Trotsky's Transitional Programme: Winning Support For Socialism
IN THE second article in an occasional series on Marxist classics, DAVE REID looks at Leon Trotsky's pamphlet, The Transitional Programme and how to win mass support for socialist change
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